Free PNG Decoration for Scrapbooking or Card Making

Good Wednesday morning to you all,

Today, I've headed back into my folders to pull this decorative box out.  It comes from June 21st of last year.

It is in png format, and can be used as a decoration in a scrapbooking project or in card making.

I work from home today; alas, my vacation has come to an end.

I am starting my journal for 2013; different from my art journal.  I showed you the journal example back in December (around the 16th, I believe).  It has pictures of me and my family from our past, and some of my artwork I've done.  It has the weather for the day and a quote.  I hope to put together a journal for this year.  I'm pulling it all together in a word document, and hope to save it to disk for my kids.  It should be fun!

I hope you all have a productive day, and that you're fully recovered from New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Here's to a great 2013!

Cj

Sharing my little handmade art journal and a few starting journal pages

Good Sunday morning,

I'm back with my camera, and showing off my new art journal.  There are no rules in your art journal.  It's your art, your feelings, whatever pleases just YOU.

Another site to see about art journaling is here:
http://tangiebaxter.com/news/category/art-journal-caravan/

In this first picture, I played around with my heart cutter. 

I also added a cute  little flower from some paper purchased at Michael's.  I had it around for several years, and had not used it yet.  I added a little gem to it.  The flower is from the same paper I used to cover my journal. 

The little Christmas tree shape is a triangle from a dollie.  It stamped it with paints to look like a little Christmas tree, and I used some of these as decorations on my Christmas packages this year.

There are 2 sculpey items, a heart that I love and hadn't used, and one of the little owls from about five that I made.

The little blue bird at the top is some of my digital art, that I printed, cut out, and added to my art page.

It's fun to flip through the pages and see what I've created!

Here's another art journal page.  It has no title or words, but is just some digital art flowers that were printed on photo paper earlier this year.  I added gems to add a little bling.  The left side design, other than another flower, is black on white paper, and I just started cutting out shapes and putting them together.  The 2 dots are from 2 different sizes of sticky dots.

Here is a poor picture of my little box, laying down and facing up.

Another picture of my handmade little book standing up and flinging it's pages open. The paper on the insides of the covers are pink; the same color you see in the spine below.

And here is the last picture of my little art journal.  As I said, it is completely handmade.  It has a fair amount of pages inside.

I will have to scrap most of them flat, but I couldn't help putting dimension inside it too.  When it is finished, I'll attach a ribbon to connect to the front and back, so it will tie loosely shut.  I'll place it on my black table by the stairway.  I think it will beg to be opened and viewed.

Have a really terrific Sunday.

I'll try to get up another post of some pngs for you to enjoy.

Cj

Exciting Journal Art Project; Free png Flowers for you

Good Saturday morning,

In browsing the internet yesterday, I found pictures about art journaling.

I am hoping to journal each day with old pictures I have of me and my family.  I hope I can keep it up, because I'd love to put the journal on a dvd for my kids ... maybe as a Christmas present next year.

But this idea was unique.  There are NO RULES.  Nothing is wrong.  Nothing is right.  You create whatever you want ... and it's just for yourself.

You can use any journaling ideas you want!  A quote, a story, a word, a feeling ... it's your creation ... for YOU!

I like to combine digital with physical.  In the picture above, my creation is totally digitial.  But I liked it so much, I wanted a physical creation with it.

I kept Bethesda (the strange little character) separated out from the rest of the picture.  I didn't have photo paper at the moment (hope to buy some today),   I printed the base picture on 8 x 11.5 card stock, and then Bethesda on a separate card stock.  I cut her out, and glued her to another piece of card stock to make her stiff.  I then mounted her on the base ... the shadow was left ON the base, with quilling circles.

It is beautiful.

This is a very poor quality picture of the finished project.  Believe me when I say, the actual finished project looks sooooo much better.  The color just doesn't come through.  I slipped the item into a protective cover sleeve, and she's all ready to go into my book that I keep.  I still will probably do another, but smaller, as I'm making a smaller frame (about 5 x 7"), and would love to put this one in it.

This picture has been turned slightly, in hopes that you can see the dimension she has from the base.

Here are some png flowers for you to snag today.

A great site for journal prompts, and where I found my quote for my project is here:
http://www.createwritenow.com/journal-prompts

She has some excellent journal prompts, and I hope you check it out!  Great stuff!

Tomorrow, I'm posting pictures of a small journal book I made.  I've done a few art journal pages in it already, and they are dimensional.  The book won't close, but when it's finished, I'll add a ribbon that attaches to the front and back to hold it slightly closed.

I will need to try the journal on a larger scale also, as the little book I made is very small.  But, it's pretty, I think.

I have my items ready for the 31st, too.  New Year's Eve.

Until then, enjoy.

P.S.  I am really enjoying making more of my creations into physical items.

I will post the one I worked on last night.

Cj

Free Decorate Plate and accessories to create for you

Good Wednesday morning!

Ahhh!  Christmas is over for another year, and hopefully, things will be a little calmer.

Today's offering is this decorative plate --- for your free use.  It could be for the front of a journal, a card, the inside of card, whatever.  It's totally up to you.

The one featured above is a jpg, and it's my journal front with my initials.

Here is the png all together.  Hmmm.  I didn't post the plate alone.  I will do another post and put it up.

This decorative plate was done quite a long time ago, and I thought I'd lost it.  But today, I stumbled across it, and thought, "Oh!  There it is."  Yeah.  (I had liked it after it was finished.  I added the little circle decoration this morning.)

Here is the decorative circle accessory that I made this morning.  It can be used in other projects separate from the plate.

I will do another quick post, just featuring the plate, so you can pick it up, if you wish.

I hope your Christmas was merry and bright!

I had a wonderful time at my daughters.  Christmas is for the very young, and I enjoyed seeing my granddaughters open their gifts.

My oldest son, and his beautiful wife, were there.  My son looks so lean, even leaner than the last time I saw him.  I asked him if he had lost more weight, and he said, "No.  I guess I'm just getting leaner over time."  He also works out, and follows a strict diet.  He look so much younger.

We had a marvelous meal together.  My oldest granddaughter loves my mashed potatoes!  My younger granddaughter does not like potatoes:  mashed or french fried.  I don't think I've ever met a child that doesn't just LOVE french fries.  She is very unique.

My youngest granddaughter has been "under the weather" for about the last seven days.  My daughter said she was even running a low-grade fever. 

She was feeling much better last night, and joyed her sister in playing around.  They had already had one Christmas with my daughter's dad and his wife, and a second at their dad's parents.  My daughter said she was quite anti-social for those get-togethers and was so happy to see that she was "on the mend".  Me, too.

By the way, the photo magnets were a hit!  I posted those yesterday.  How can you not love little photos of some of personal family pictures?  I'm planning to make a set for each of my sons, as my older son thought they were cool.

My son's phone is awesome.  Every time we get together, he shows me some of his new features.  I delight in this.  It is totally awesome.  He has a setting for burst pictures.  It takes about 8 pictures in a row.  Click, click, click, click ... you get it.  And then it chooses what it thinks is the best and features it.  You can still go back and look at them all, and over-ride its choice, if you want, but it is usually right about which one is best.

He also had an effect that picks just one color out, and only that color shows in the finished photo.  The rest of the pictures show in shades of black and gray.  You can choose the color, and I believe, the effect.  He showed me how that worked.  Ah!  The wonder of technology!

My dear younger sister had chemo, so she was spending a very quiet Christmas with her beloved.  She wasn't feeling well from it, and was missing her own grown children.  Her daughter, born the day before my second son, had passed away several years ago, and her son out west, was busy, I'm sure.  She emailed me, which I read this morning, and I need to give her a call today.

I also need to call my baby sister, and see how their Christmas went.

I will try to catch them fairly early today, and have a quick chat.

As for me, I am off this whole week, and Monday and Tuesday of next week.  I'll work from home on Wednesday and Thursday, then back in the office on the 4th.

There are some major changes taking place by the end of this year, and I'm hoping I will be able to work from home.  If not, I may have to go back in on the 2nd.

What did you do for Christmas?

Enjoy.

Cj

An Extra Sunday Post: Journaling in 2013

Another good Sunday morning,

The above is a journal page, MY journal page, that I created this morning, for the coming new year.  I don't know about you, but I like to journal.

In fact, I started a journal blog several years ago, but couldn't keep up with it.  Instead, I thought I'd start my own private journal again this next year.

As we grow older ... and I am, it would be fun to leave behind something my kids might find interesting.

My journal page will change each day.  The pictures at the top will change daily.  They will have either creations I'm wanting tor remember that I created recently or scrap pictures.

I like quotes, so I also have a quote box, and that will change daily.

I like to remember the weather, and happenings today, so additional boxes were made for that.

The journal question of the day is in the darker yellow box, while my journal memories are written in the lighter yellow box.  I'm sure my kids will get a kick out of these.  Some insight to "dear old mom", and amused smiles.

Here is the journal template.  It is in png format.  You can decorate yours and add blocks as to what suits you.

Items to consider:  To Do list, Scrap Today (and use the whole page), My Favorite Song, Recipes to Try, Places I Want to Visit, Birthday's, Anniversaries, etc.  You get the idea, I'm sure.

It's your page to CREATE!

If you have a lot going on one day, create several for that day.

Print them out, and put them together in a book.  You'll be surprised how quickly they accumulate.

And it will be lots of fun going back through them yourself.  Maybe on a "blah-kind of day".

Use, and enjoy.  Also, I've done a calendar template to go along with this.  It will post tomorrow.  I'll start you off with January 2013, and there's another blank for you to do yourself for all the months in 2013.

I hope you like this idea!  Enjoy!

Cj

P.S.  I've pretty much decided to end my website, Easy As Pie Daily Graphics.  It's costlier than it used to be, and I don't update it enough.  Instead, I'm making the effort to post here on my blog daily.  Enough said!